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I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class (クラスで2番目に可愛い女の子と友だちになった, Kurasu de Ni-ban Me ni Kawaii Onna no Ko to Tomodachi ni Natta, lit. "I Became Friends With the Second Cutest Girl in Class") is a Japanese romantic comedy light novel series written by Takata and illustrated by Tom Osabe ...
In the original Japanese title, dosanko is a word for a breed of pony native to Hokkaido, which was later extended to mean also "Hokkaido-raised" when referring to people, gyaru refers to a member of the gal subculture, namara is a Hokkaido dialect word meaning "very" or "super", [15] and menkoi is Hokkaido dialect for "cute" or "adorable."
In Japanese popular culture, a bishōjo (美少女, lit. "beautiful girl"), also romanized as bishojo or bishoujo, is a cute girl character. Bishōjo characters appear ubiquitously in media including manga, anime, and computerized games (especially in the bishojo game genre), and also appear in advertising and as mascots, such as for maid cafés.
Kawaii has taken on a life of its own, spawning the formation of kawaii websites, kawaii home pages, kawaii browser themes and finally, kawaii social networking pages. While Japan is the origin and Mecca of all things kawaii, artists and businesses around the world are imitating the kawaii theme.
Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie (Japanese: 可愛いだけじゃない式守さん, Hepburn: Kawaii dake ja Nai Shikimori-san) [a] is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series by Keigo Maki. It was serialized on Kodansha 's Magazine Pocket website and app from February 2019 to February 2023, with its chapters collected in 20 tankōbon volumes as of ...
"Kawaikute Gomen" (Japanese: 可愛くてごめん, lit. ' Sorry for Being Cute ') is a song by the Japanese musical group HoneyWorks.It serves as the character song of Chizuru Nakamura, also known by her persona Chuu-tan, from the 2022 anime series Heroines Run the Show, which is part of the group's Kokuhaku Jikkō Iinkai: Ren'ai Series multimedia project.
For the seventh anniversary in 2019, an anime film was released, called Sumikko Gurashi The Movie - The Pop-up Book and the Secret Child (映画すみっコぐらし とびだす絵本とひみつのコ, Eiga Sumikko Gurashi: Tobidasu Ehon to Himitsu no Ko). The film was produced by the studio Fanworks who previously made the Aggretsuko series.
Reviews for the anime have been generally positive. Amy McNulty from Anime News Network gave the first three episodes of the series an "A" rating writing that: "Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! should make any anime fan laugh, although long-time fans of magical girl shows will get the jokes better by default. As a parody of a genre that can ...